Australia July 2025 Unemployment rate 4.2% (vs. 4.2% expected)

Australia July 2025 Unemployment rate 4.2% (vs. 4.2% expected) with full time employment surging +60.5K ... AUD surging too as RBA rate cut bets trimmed

PBOC sets USD/ CNY reference rate for today at 7.1337 (vs. estimate at 7.1743), strongest for CNY since November 6 2024

Shale oil production defies peak predictions, with 2.2% annual growth. Efficiency gains & energy transition slowdown may boost output, but fracking limits loom.

Chinese firms eye Indonesia's 5.12% growth & 20-30% profit margins, boosting industrial land prices 15-25%.

Yen up, Nikkei down, JGBs more or less flat - Bank of Japan questions resurfacing

China to host "Anti-US summit" following the Trump-Putin Alaska meeting

Sterling hits three-week high as Fed-BOE policy gap supports gains.